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Tony Romo: Broadcaster (4 Viewers)

A couple of weeks ago, the regular announcers must have had the day off around Christmas.  Robert Smith and 2 other guys were calling the Green Bay/Lions game.  I love Robert Smith, the second guy was okay, but the third guy was like a Saturday Night Live parody of an announcer.  I switched to the other channel it was so bad.  I think it was New England thumping someone by 20+ points.

I googled the game announcers and found out it was  former Colts punter that is some sort of social media star that was dying to get a chance to call a game.  Might be perfect if the XFL makes a comeback.  He used the term "lit" at least twice.

I can at least tolerate Romo.  He's not perfect, but he's not the first guy to make me change from a competitive interesting game.

That is my luke warm take.

 
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Vanilla Guerrilla said:
A couple of weeks ago, the regular announcers must have had the day off around Christmas.  Robert Smith and 2 other guys were calling the Green Bay/Jets game.  I love Robert Smith, the second guy was okay, but the third guy was like a Saturday Night Live parody of an announcer.  I switched to the other channel it was so bad.  I think it was New England thumping someone by 20+ points.

I googled the game announcers and found out it was  former Colts punter that is some sort of social media star that was dying to get a chance to call a game.  Might be perfect if the XFL makes a comeback.  He used the term "lit" at least twice.

I can at least tolerate Romo.  He's not perfect, but he's not the first guy to make me change from a competitive interesting game.

That is my luke warm take.
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What punter?  When I look up the Packers/Jets broadcast team for that game it was apparently Kenny Albert and Ronde Barber.

 
Vanilla Guerrilla said:
A couple of weeks ago, the regular announcers must have had the day off around Christmas.  Robert Smith and 2 other guys were calling the Green Bay/Jets game.  I love Robert Smith, the second guy was okay, but the third guy was like a Saturday Night Live parody of an announcer.  I switched to the other channel it was so bad.  I think it was New England thumping someone by 20+ points.

I googled the game announcers and found out it was  former Colts punter that is some sort of social media star that was dying to get a chance to call a game.  Might be perfect if the XFL makes a comeback.  He used the term "lit" at least twice.

I can at least tolerate Romo.  He's not perfect, but he's not the first guy to make me change from a competitive interesting game.

That is my luke warm take.
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coyote5 said:
What punter?  When I look up the Packers/Jets broadcast team for that game it was apparently Kenny Albert and Ronde Barber.
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Pat McAfee.  He's supposed to be funny and is pretty big with the Bleacher Report/PFT Commenter gang.

 
"Eight passes, six rushes - you can't get better balance to start a football game on a drive."

hmm

 
Romo is not nearly as bad as he was before.   Does not talk over Nance as much.  I do get a little tired of contant play predictions though. Once is awhile it is OK but it gets old fast.

 
bananafish said:
I don't know that I'm a "big fan" but he is definitely better than the vast majority of them. I hate the Cowboys and expected not to like Romo (Witten is terrible BTW), but Romo has been a pleasant surprise.
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I think a lot of people forget how horrible Phil Simms used to be in that role.

 
mr. furley said:
watch right here on this play when Rivers drops back and then Allen runs a route, then he puts his foot in the ground and he turns around and the ball gets there, then he catches it and he turns around then runs, and then he makes a move and gains some more yards.

that's the kind of high level commentary i expect in a high level matchup like we saw today
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Nobody on this forum has ever been more wrong about anything than you are about this guy. 

@LHUCKS

 
Capella said:
Nobody on this forum has ever been more wrong about anything than you are about this guy. 

@LHUCKS
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no other former player, especially QB, could analyze games like Tony Romo. his calls at the end of the game such as "they either need to score on this play or get out of bounds to save the FG" were crucial to my understanding of the game.

topped only by "if Butker had missed that one then New England would have been in the Super Bowl"

he's the timschochet of NFL analysts. instead of letting the enormity of the moment speak for itself, he's filling the space with 3x more words than is necessary. it's insufferable.

 
James Daulton said:
Amazing calls.  That last drive by NE he predicted most of the plays.
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everyone speaks of this in such glowing terms. why are people awed that a former NFL qb, who has studied the game film would be able to guess which play might be coming?

no mention of the 75% miss rate the rest of the game? teams go in to a game with, let's say, 120 plays. you can immediately eliminate 100 of them based on offensive personnel. then another 10 based on defensive personnel. then another 5 on down and distance. then 2 or 3 more on time of the game. Fouts can do it. SImms used to do it and people loathed the guy. Ronde Barber can do it. AIkman can do it. 

but most of these guys lay out and let the game unfurl. Romo just cannot stop himself from vomiting forth every though that hits his brain.

he's not doing anything that every other former player can't also do. on one of the plays late he predicted a throw wide on a double move. it was a pass to Gronk at the line of scrimmage. he predicted that they'd force the weakside zone run until KC could stop it after they ran the play once for a handful of yards.... they ran it once more. 

he suggested that Kansas City wanted to score a TD at the end of the game so that they could win.

he suggested that NE would pooch the ball so as to not give KC a chance to get good field position... NE kicked it deep.

that's off the top of my head and really just in the last 2-3 minutes of the game. there are 50+ more of him predicting plays and being right sometimes and wrong other times. just let the game happen and give insight beyond "watch this right here Jim! he gets the ball here and he turns there and then he runs there and then he gets tackled!"

it's not interesting

people seem to be confusing him repeating what he just saw & predicting plays for some high level analysis. 

he's comfortable, he's likeable, he doesn't stumble over his words or sound nervous. HUGE plus for him. the rest isn't particularly great. 

 
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mr. furley said:
no other former player, especially QB, could analyze games like Tony Romo. his calls at the end of the game such as "they either need to score on this play or get out of bounds to save the FG" were crucial to my understanding of the game.

topped only by "if Butker had missed that one then New England would have been in the Super Bowl"

he's the timschochet of NFL analysts. instead of letting the enormity of the moment speak for itself, he's filling the space with 3x more words than is necessary. it's insufferable.
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Your misfires on this topic is actually changing my opinion on your level of intelligence. 

Like, you’re just doing this as a shtick right. 

 
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mr. furley said:
everyone speaks of this in such glowing terms. why are people awed that a former NFL qb, who has studied the game film would be able to guess which play might be coming?

no mention of the 75% miss rate the rest of the game? teams go in to a game with, let's say, 120 plays. you can immediately eliminate 100 of them based on offensive personnel. then another 10 based on defensive personnel. then another 5 on down and distance. then 2 or 3 more on time of the game. Fouts can do it. SImms used to do it and people loathed the guy. Ronde Barber can do it. AIkman can do it. 

but most of these guys lay out and let the game unfurl. Romo just cannot stop himself from vomiting forth every though that hits his brain.

he's not doing anything that every other former player can't also do. on one of the plays late he predicted a throw wide on a double move. it was a pass to Gronk at the line of scrimmage. he predicted that they'd force the weakside zone run until KC could stop it after they ran the play once for a handful of yards.... they ran it once more. 

he suggested that Kansas City wanted to score a TD at the end of the game so that they could win.

he suggested that NE would pooch the ball so as to not give KC a chance to get good field position... NE kicked it deep.

that's off the top of my head and really just in the last 2-3 minutes of the game. there are 50+ more of him predicting plays and being right sometimes and wrong other times. just let the game happen and give insight beyond "watch this right here Jim! he gets the ball here and he turns there and then he runs there and then he gets tackled!"

it's not interesting

people seem to be confusing him repeating what he just saw & predicting plays for some high level analysis. 

he's comfortable, he's likeable, he doesn't stumble over his words or sound nervous. HUGE plus for him. the rest isn't particularly great. 
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Not only do you seem to be in the minority here, but you seem to be the only one. Not only here, but on Twitter as well. When you find yourself in a hole, stop diggin'

 
KingPrawn said:
Not only do you seem to be in the minority here, but you seem to be the only one. Not only here, but on Twitter as well. When you find yourself in a hole, stop diggin'
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Maybe it's just the contrarian in me responding in some way to the glowing praise this guy gets, but I agree with furley that he's not all that special.  Maybe it's just that so many of these guys suck that he seems great in comparison?

 
mr. furley said:
everyone speaks of this in such glowing terms. why are people awed that a former NFL qb, who has studied the game film would be able to guess which play might be coming?

no mention of the 75% miss rate the rest of the game? teams go in to a game with, let's say, 120 plays. you can immediately eliminate 100 of them based on offensive personnel. then another 10 based on defensive personnel. then another 5 on down and distance. then 2 or 3 more on time of the game. Fouts can do it. SImms used to do it and people loathed the guy. Ronde Barber can do it. AIkman can do it. 

but most of these guys lay out and let the game unfurl. Romo just cannot stop himself from vomiting forth every though that hits his brain.

he's not doing anything that every other former player can't also do. on one of the plays late he predicted a throw wide on a double move. it was a pass to Gronk at the line of scrimmage. he predicted that they'd force the weakside zone run until KC could stop it after they ran the play once for a handful of yards.... they ran it once more. 

he suggested that Kansas City wanted to score a TD at the end of the game so that they could win.

he suggested that NE would pooch the ball so as to not give KC a chance to get good field position... NE kicked it deep.

that's off the top of my head and really just in the last 2-3 minutes of the game. there are 50+ more of him predicting plays and being right sometimes and wrong other times. just let the game happen and give insight beyond "watch this right here Jim! he gets the ball here and he turns there and then he runs there and then he gets tackled!"

it's not interesting

people seem to be confusing him repeating what he just saw & predicting plays for some high level analysis. 

he's comfortable, he's likeable, he doesn't stumble over his words or sound nervous. HUGE plus for him. the rest isn't particularly great. 
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He starts sounding like a fortune teller to me with some of the predictions - even turning misses into hits.  I might have misunderstood, but I could have sworn he predicted a running play, and then when it was a pass, he was impressed by Mahomes with something like, "It was a running play but he threw the ball and it was a great pass."

 
jhib said:
He starts sounding like a fortune teller to me with some of the predictions - even turning misses into hits.  I might have misunderstood, but I could have sworn he predicted a running play, and then when it was a pass, he was impressed by Mahomes with something like, "It was a running play but he threw the ball and it was a great pass."
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so now you know what it is to live with my wife.  

 
mr. furley said:
everyone speaks of this in such glowing terms. why are people awed that a former NFL qb, who has studied the game film would be able to guess which play might be coming?

no mention of the 75% miss rate the rest of the game? teams go in to a game with, let's say, 120 plays. you can immediately eliminate 100 of them based on offensive personnel. then another 10 based on defensive personnel. then another 5 on down and distance. then 2 or 3 more on time of the game. Fouts can do it. SImms used to do it and people loathed the guy. Ronde Barber can do it. AIkman can do it. 

but most of these guys lay out and let the game unfurl. Romo just cannot stop himself from vomiting forth every though that hits his brain.

he's not doing anything that every other former player can't also do. on one of the plays late he predicted a throw wide on a double move. it was a pass to Gronk at the line of scrimmage. he predicted that they'd force the weakside zone run until KC could stop it after they ran the play once for a handful of yards.... they ran it once more. 

he suggested that Kansas City wanted to score a TD at the end of the game so that they could win.

he suggested that NE would pooch the ball so as to not give KC a chance to get good field position... NE kicked it deep.

that's off the top of my head and really just in the last 2-3 minutes of the game. there are 50+ more of him predicting plays and being right sometimes and wrong other times. just let the game happen and give insight beyond "watch this right here Jim! he gets the ball here and he turns there and then he runs there and then he gets tackled!"

it's not interesting

people seem to be confusing him repeating what he just saw & predicting plays for some high level analysis. 

he's comfortable, he's likeable, he doesn't stumble over his words or sound nervous. HUGE plus for him. the rest isn't particularly great. 
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If every other former player could do it, then they would do it. He is seeing the play pre-snap, trusting what he sees and then stepping out there and calling it. It’s crazy you think this is something others could do when we literally have decades of history of announcers not doing it. 

 
This man dropped a "Ball Don't Lie" reference in the AFC Championship Game. If anybody doesn't like him after that, they may have no soul. 

 
Capella said:
If every other former player could do it, then they would do it. He is seeing the play pre-snap, trusting what he sees and then stepping out there and calling it. It’s crazy you think this is something others could do when we literally have decades of history of announcers not doing it. 
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Maybe others don’t do it because it’s annoying and doesnt add anything for the viewer? I agree he’s no worse than the average in his profession, which has an amazingly low bar, but is it really his job to predict “its gonna be a run” milliseconds before the snap?  Judging from my twitter feed, most viewers are more excited by Romos predictions than by watching the game.  

 
He is annoyingly entertaining.  Might not be the best comp since it’s been so long from his voice as a regular, but Romo reminds me of Madden:  a guy who loves and understands the X’s and O’s of the game, but is so generally goofy the words don’t always come out correct

 
Capella said:
If every other former player could do it, then they would do it. He is seeing the play pre-snap, trusting what he sees and then stepping out there and calling it. It’s crazy you think this is something others could do when we literally have decades of history of announcers not doing it. 
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:goodposting:

 
CletiusMaximus said:
Maybe others don’t do it because it’s annoying and doesnt add anything for the viewer? I agree he’s no worse than the average in his profession, which has an amazingly low bar, but is it really his job to predict “its gonna be a run” milliseconds before the snap?  Judging from my twitter feed, most viewers are more excited by Romos predictions than by watching the game.  
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He’s not just predicting a run. Stop trying to simplify it to make your incorrect point. He’s calling out where the ball will go and why which educates the viewer. His call before the Gronk sideline catch was an awesome description. 

 
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